"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, meh, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 6th, 2012
Acclaimed humor site The Oatmeal has a running series of comics called “Minor Differences” wherein situations go from great to gruesome with the addition or omission of some small factor. Examples are: the cuteness of a woman wearing just a tee-shirt versus the creepiness of a man wearing just a tee-shirt or the difference in […]
Posted in books, Recommendations, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jun 18th, 2012
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen My rating: 3 of 5 stars I recently read an annotated version of Mansfield park, and while the book was fascinating from a historical and informational perspective, I found the story and writing itself rather heavy-handed. I believe that of Austen’s novels, this one has aged the least gracefully. Fanny […]
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Recommendations, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jan 1st, 2012
So, I’ll give you the good news first. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox would have had a hard time being any better. When I finished it, I wanted to start reading it all over again from the beginning and enjoy it once more. It was a letdown that it ended. It was the sort […]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like on Dec 31st, 2011
You probably have seen this video that is making the rounds, of a surprisingly articulate little girl being coached by her Dad through a Socratic discussion on gender marketing of toys. While I applaud the family for encouraging their kid to think about marketing and gender expectations, I find myself more than a little bit […]
Posted in Fashion, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jun 8th, 2011
Lately, I’ve been seeing little girls just wearing fancy dresses for normal wear. Like they have a dress leftover from a stint of flower-girling, and instead of just letting it molder in the closet until it is outgrown, then fobbing it off on Goodwill, the parents are letting the kid just go ahead and get […]
Posted in bike commuting, Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jan 24th, 2011
I pass by this church every morning on my way to work, and every morning, I get a wee case of the grumpies from this: The first half zillion times I passed by it, I just thought, “oh, a phone box. You don’t see many of those around anymore. Darn convenient when you do need […]
Posted in meta, Things I like & Things I don't like on Dec 9th, 2010
New minifeature over here. I’ve decided that I can’t waste all of my brainfarts on Twitter or Facebook. Not when I’ve got a perfectly good blog to yammer on. So now, occasionally, I’ll post pairs of things that I have liked and disliked recently. I like riding past a house at night that has the […]